XF 1.3 User Group Promotions question

[Ludachris]

In vB3, we used the promotions system as a probation system for newly registered members and those who weren't very active posters. This limited those members to post in only a few forums on the site and also had several other limitations. This helped encourage people to participate (in a positive way) to get promoted. Once the member hit 30 days registered and 30 posts they were bumped up to a "proven" usergroup via a cron job that night, which opened up all standard access to the site.

I'm trying to get this working with XF and I keep having situations come up where the member will get promoted then demoted the same day - they keep bouncing back and forth. I have all members set as Registered for their primary group - new members belong to the Registered group only. I have a user group promotion set up that checks if the user state is valid, if the member is member of the Registered user group, is not a member of any other user group, has at least 30 messages, and has been a member for at least 30 days. If they meet that criteria they get added to the Proven group.

Do I have it set up correctly to function the same way it did in vB? Will there be a situation where members will lose the promotion even if they meet the requirements for the promotion?

 

[Paul B]

Members will never be demoted as long as they meet the criteria.

Why are you checking if they aren't a member of any other user group?
Surely that is going to trigger a demotion for the promotion as once they get promoted they are now a member of the Proven group, which makes them a member of another user group...

 

[Ludachris]

Sorry, meant to say "aren't a member of any of the other user groups - not including Proven". The idea is to promote people who are ONLY part of the Registered group and no other groups.

 

[Paul B]

If members are toggling in and out of the Proven user group then you have a conflict with the criteria somewhere.

I implement a similar system on my site.
All members are pre-moderated.
After 5 posts they get promoted to a Verified user group which no longer pre-moderates them.
Any member purchasing an account upgrade is automatically promoted to the Verified group.

 

[Ludachris]

Is there a way to prevent users from being demoted once they're promoted? It would be nice to be able to grandfather everyone when there is new criteria added.

 

[Jeremy]

No, there isn't a way.